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Creation Is enough for me but It goes far far beyond that, there Is plenty of evidence of GOD, but It Is all denied by the common thiest through Ignorence and arogence!!!
Like I said earlier can you prove to me that you love your girlfriend/wife?
Originally posted by One_Love_One_GOD
There Is no dictatorship under the rule of GOD, he holds most high your freewill more so than your current Goverment that you happily reside under. Yes my faith Is build on solid fact other wise I would be blind You can bahhhhhh all you like mate, but Im a WOLF!!!!
Like I said earlier can you prove to me that you love your girlfriend/wife?
Creation Is enough for me but It goes far far beyond that, there Is plenty of evidence of GOD, but It Is all denied by the common thiest through Ignorence and arogence!!!
The concept of the power that a nuclear weapon yeilds may have once upon a time seemed supernatural yet here we are today with things far more advance than that even.
So what your saying is that if anything exists than its because of god? Thats not much of a theory due to the fact that god cannot be proven to exist whether you believe or not.
Understatment of the week and It's only monday!!
What about a birds wings, did It just develope a useless stubb oneday and then the all so usfull stubb then developed Into wings?
What about the ears and nose?
How did the nose know to smell when It couldn't smell In the first place?
And yet, this is exactly what your doing. It doesn't even have to be something familiar to us today. Say you raised a child, or gave a child a book teaching about sock demon's for instance. Nearly everyone looses sock's right? Well, this child looses sock's without explanation. The sock is never found again. By experience and teaching's, why wouldn't the kid believe in the sock demon? Hell, I almost believe in the sock demon, as I'm loosing sock's constantly! lol
No one feel's the need to take god out. We don't even care about god. Screw god. We're just trying to educate ourselve's. We're just trying to learn the nechanics behind the universe and life so that we can better ourselve's. And evolution does explain, as well as neuroscience, why we started becoming the way we are. It wouldn't hurt to look at all the evidence with an open mind rather then scoffing at it as being a way to explain away god. Remember, we don't care about god, he doesn't exist, so there exist no need to take him out of anything.
Lol, well then that's ignorance for you. There are explanation's for all these thing's as well as evidence. Your failure to learn about them or deny them is just plain ignorance.
I'm not handicapping them in any way at all. How is teaching them the truth a handicap? Science isn't a belief structure. It doesn't claim absolute knowledge, nor does it claim absolute truth. Religion does, and religion has been proven wrong plenty of time's.. The world's no longer flat thanks to science! Would you rather our children still thought the world was flat? Or that we are so special that everything in the universe revolves around us? These are thing's religion taught! Hell, if we didn't discover the world was round for a fact, even you would be believing the world is flat
Jesus despised organized religion, yet you subscribe to an organized religion's belief's. Wouldn't this be a contradiction?
But you do indeed subscribe to blind faith. You have no evidence of any kind that would lead you to believe there is a god. The argument that the evidence for him is because we're here is an argument born of ignorance and blind faith. The moral teaching's of god are not anything miraculous. It's just common sense and in some societies, these teaching's were already law around the birth of christianity lol.
With the power to create so called good and evil, he allowed evil to run rampant only so he could kill off his own creation? All those sinner's he massacered, why doesn't he do so now? Seriously ... he destroy's entire cities in the past for all the sins commited in those cities and yet ... not a single on today? Where the hell's the justification in that? Make's litterally no sense. Oh I think I'll kill these guy's, but let the other's 2000 year's from now get off scott free. I just dont feel like doing it today.
If I had the power's god supposedly has and I was in a situation where my creation didn't believe. Well, firstly I wouldn't hide myself. If any of my creation was starting to sin, I'd appear to them and show myself to them and be like hey look... why kill dude? You trying to piss me off? lol ... If there were any non believer's I'd again make myself evident to them. You say god make's himself evident to me. I say no he doesn't. Nothing's happened in my entire life that would appear to be some innate divine message from a fantasy based god. So how exactly is god showing himself to me?
One of truth and morality. A world where the law's are simple enough to follow, yet offer real consequence's if broken. Such as, you kill someone, as repayment for that death, you shall meet your death. If your able to kill, who's to say you won't do it again. Your a threat to society. May sound abit harsh at first, but think about it real hard. Who in there right mind would kill someone knowing that would mean there own death? Not a whole lot. Also, you take the threat out at the start, you won't have the threat comming back later in life. But that's just one law. Other's wouldn't be anywhere nearly this harsh. Except for rappist and such.
Ah, but go at a deeper level. Did you build the molecule's and atom's that make up that computer? Did you design the physic's behind that computer's operation? Did you design anything that make's up that very computer? These are the principle's behind your computer that also allow for a universe to exist per chance naturally. You didn't design those principle's, they were already in existance.
Love is a feeling. You can't adequatly describe a feeling in such a way that someone can instantly feel the same feeling. Please don't pose idiocy question's. But, creationism itself should be fairly easy for those who believe in god. As stated above, provide evidence showing that life cannot occur naturally AND show experimental proof. That's a heck of alot more different then a feeling.
This argument has no foundation of thruth from my point of view to compare a real world relationship to a sill myth Is ridicolous, you see your just confirming here what Ive already stated, a child becomes very seceptictical the anything when fear Is added In the mix. A child may fear this sock demon but can they confront It? There all sorts of crazy fantasies that men come up with, but you got to wonder where Is the line drawn between fantasie and reality, In the end we all live In a fantasy world, consiousness It-self Is a fantasy, the human mind will go places that are amazing compared to what we see In every day life but youve got to wonder, why? Why are we as humans so Inclined to be In a higher state, why cant we just be Independent? Why do we look for life on other planets/systems? Why the need for that longing? It's programed In are minds but who put It there? Mother nature? If so why?
But If you are so keen to find truth and educate your selves then why take one possibilty away from the eqasion? The fundermental thing In the path of learning and evolution In man kinds knoldge of the world we live In Is to always keep possabilities on the table, never rule out one thing because you are narrowing down the spectrume of the big picture. It Is ok that one man would be more Inclined towards one thing, but he Is far less wise to rule out the other, he Is denying freedom of thought. This Is almost a form of religion when you have one set form and way of thinking, this Is very flawed and no matter what way you look at It the Universe Is far to amazing to rule out anything of It origin.
Evidence and theries are two different things my friend.
Because It Is yuor deffinition of truth and your followed path, I have never stated that science Is a belief structure nor would I, anything from man that claims absolute truth Is flawed, we know nothing untill we look at the big picture, knoledge Is a tree with many branches they must all be explored to get to the truth. Yes the way of Religions thining Is flawed as I have stated already, a one way path of thinking Is flawed to the extreme. GOD does condone such away of thinking the world Is ours to explore and If a number people wish to asume that the world Is made of sugur without no fondation of such a statment then be It on there own demise and Ignorence. Why would you ask me such a question that Is it my wish to hold false Infomation as common knoledge that the world Is flat, NO! I despise such a way of thinking, It Is my wish for my kids to know everything there Is to know about the Universe and the planet, a privalidge that we were no awarded many a year ago.
anything from man that claims absolute truth Is flawed, we know nothing untill we look at the big picture
Any man or men that state a therie as fact are not the people that one should listen too, unless you see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears you should believe not.
No It Is not, If I share an oppinion someone then It just means that we share something In common, I subcribe to nothing, I stand alone with GOD, I look up to him, I hold him most high but that does not mean that I will walk up to you If I see you doing something that Is against my oppion.
If you want to rape, kill and pillage then do so, I will not stop you, for It Is not my place to do so.
Like I said before I subscribe to nothing, my faith Is only blind to the voluntarily blind. I have evidence, evidence that you deny and do not hold In high regard.
To say that GOD has not done a thing In the last 2000 thousand years to counter sin Is a very uneducated statment to make. He has done something that you and I could never do. We are all In a trial of law, GOD's trial of law. GOD plays fair, GOD's mercy Is Imense, all will be given a chance.
We all once walked with GOD, but we lost that connection at that level we once had, how ever GOD Is unmistakable, whos to say that your way of dealing with a killer Is not the same as GOD's? I do not believe that you have not been confronted by GOD and his word, GOD knock on everyones door, EVERYONES!
Wow what a flawed society and way of thinking that would be, it's not even a new Idea, It sounds much like the USofA's way to m, but does that work? NO!
No of course I didn't but Its still fashioned and tamed so that It's outcome Is tailour made, from the smallist transister on the CPU to the smallest pipe on the GPU It's all desighned and made by a Creator.
Ok close your eyes for one second...............now reopen them, volai!!!!!!
Eh? huh? Like I said, I nearly believe in this so called sock demon, I don't fear it however. And why would a child fear it? Let's just call it a sock god so we can dispose the presumption's of what a demon is. This sock god never caused any harm. Never killed anyone. Never commited gennocide. No one's ever claimed to kill per order's of this sock god. So why fear it? There's no nee to fear that which does no harm. Do you fear a flower? Do you fear the oxygen you breath? Your taught not to question god's existance. At a conscious level you may come to believe there's no fear involved with your relationship with god, but our subconscious mind's play an extremely important role in our belief's and emotions.
No one ever took the possibility of a god out of the equation. Then again, no one's ever found evidence for a god either. In our quest for knowledge, we don't believe in some fanciful fairytale when there's literally nothing based upon that fairytale. Ignorance of the experiences of natural cause's is not evidence.
True, but theories mankind has posed has predicted a certain ammount of thing's that have been proven as true by both evidence and experimental proof that those theories were true. Can the belief in god lay this same claim? If so .. where is all the evidence and experimental proof?
Science doesn't claim absolute truth. Never has. Never will. Our knowledge is a continual experience. Our science seek's out the truth, but has never laid claim to absolute truth. Religion and believer's in god however have, that absolute truth being that god is real and god created us. So, with your own saying, that so called absolute truth is flawed. Why is it religous folk don't question if god really does exist or is just man made, as the evidence strongly suggest's? Followers of faith say well look at the bigger picture when they themselve's will not do so.
Then followers of faith shouldn't believe in creationism/intelligent design. These people claim that this is a fact and try to attack the gaps of information in what science has currently discovered thus far. They have no theory of how life cannot occur naturally from their own accord. So why listen to them? Why believe in creationism? Another point I need to make, scientific theories aren't claimed as fact's. Evolution isn't claimed as a fact, it's still taught in schools as a theory and so is big bang. We have discovered everything about those two theories as of yet, so they still are not fact's.
Really? And despite repeated inquiries, you've not once shown any evidence. How can I deny something you don't show?
Name something god has done in the last ten years. Just one thing will do just fine. God is fair and his mercy immense. Yet he commits genocide on a horrific scale in the bible due to sinner's in the past, yet does nothing about the so called sin of today. God is an illogical being indeed.
Your still thinking about how you designed the physical component's of the computer ... naughty naughty. Those physical component's wouldn't exist without the basic principle's of physics which says a universe and life can exist per chance. Ya gotta go to the itsy bitsy level's where you can't touch.
Ok, done ... My analyses. I could see a little light from the bright room I'm in filtering through my eyelids. Felt my heart beating and felt my breathing a little better then usual as my sense's focussed mainly on that. Heard my birds chirp abit better.
Conclusion of this experiment. Closing your eyes deprive's you of your visual perception's allowing for the other senses to come in a little more stronger then usual.
Exactly what was your predicted result of this experiment?
But what evidence of this sock demon can you show me, do you really believe In it, no of course you don't you know It's just a little silly tale right? Now that this so called so called sock demon has become a god what does one need to do to become aquainted with It? Once again you asume and Impose a false statment on me, that I am taught not to question GOD's existence. I question any thing that I have not seen and heard with my own eyes and ears, but once I have tasted the sweet taste of truth It is undeniable and forever present. I know I am here, I know reality and Its personality and I wont ever cross that line, I have seen fear, I have seen faith, and If you want to talk about what will be come and sit with me, cry on my shoulder Im a friend, and If you want to talk about It any more lie here on the floor.
Do you know what It Is to find GOD? You do not, there for how can you question that which you dont understand. How can you say there Is nothing based upon this so called ''fairytale'', how unfounded Is that for a statement Product, how about 2006 years of PASSION! how about absolute truth! how about absolute dedication! why would a wise man put his life on the line for something he holds no evidence for?
Where is all the evidence and experimental proof? Like I have said I have provided you with all I can give you personally, this Is not enough for you, to learn a discover we must go places we wouldnt normally venture, to learn we must teach, with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is not always best to go with what feels right because that Is usually the easy option.
Never said It does as a whole but like I said before science does today try to become Independent of GOD when science In the end Is GOD, it's his signature nothing more or less. I will not talk with you any more on the subject of religion because as I have stated 40+ times now It hold no place what so ever on the real world GOD, It Is just a product of mankind, and deception at it's best. GOD holds most high the man that seeks truth and the big picture, It takes a brave man to stand on the edge of what he holds most high but it will only make him stronger, you have to ask questions, no one should ever Impose on you there beliefs or take away the ability to learn. If he does then what good Is he or It, he/it has there own agenda that does not hold your own Interest In high regard.
I found him, through his son that he gave up, he has done so much for me In my life, amazing things. From your point of view GOD des not exist so how can I tell you what he Is doing on the Earth at this moment. GOD does not commit genocide man does, In GOD's name funny enough but does that mean GOD Is in error? No, man took GOD's word and used it for his own means. So man Is the one wh becomes Illogical not GOD, man uses GOD as a scape goat.
Ah but then what difference does this so called cause have to the debate at hand now, your placing your view on something much smaller and more simple to make it seem more believable, your using deception.
You asked to see the world around you, seems yours Is rather small.
Evidence exist's the same as your's. Through experience. What happen's to sock's that disappear for no appearent reason? Let's just say the sock god need's them for his own reason's that man cannot even begin to understand. So through experience alone, a person lead to believe or having read or having been told about orally of a sock god taking people's sock's for his own purposes, would very well lead one to believe in this sock god. You think you know god is real through reading about him in a book and through so called experience's that lead you to believe he is real. You never previously knew of a god untill you either read about him or were told about him or overheard people talking about him.
How about the religous war's proclaimed in the name of god? How about the clinicly insane from our own present time killing abortionist doctor's? How about cult's who proclaim to have absolute truth given to them by god and turn out to be false scam artist's. How about the witch trial's where thousand of innocent old and young women were killed for having a mind of their own because "god" proclaimed these people being satanist's?
By evidence and experimental proof, I'm not asking for neorological reason's. I'm asking for evidence and experimental proof that life cannot occur naturally without the need of a creator, or a universe for that matter. There is uttlery no indication at all that a creator is needed for a universe or life to occur naturally. You need to start at the beginning my friend, not at the happening's inside your brain.
There is direct evidence in various religous teaching's that god and religion coincide. There is direct evidence in our genetic coding and neurological mechanics that religion and god coincide. To claim any different and live in your world of god, is to live in a world of ignorance.
Re-read your little bible there. God does indeed commit genocide on a world wide scale. Saving but a few of his most faithfull follower's. No man was ever involved with the action's of god. God did those thing's out of so called anger for all these sinner's. No man took god's word and used it for his own mean's? You must not watch the new's much. There are plenty of example's of people using the name of god to furthur their own action's.
Eh? I never said I was teaching them in simplistic term's. They may not fully understand everything I teach them, but not once do I decieve them or make something sound more believable. When it come's to religion and humanities notion of god, I teach them why some people have a need to believe this stuff.
Eh? I never said I was teaching them in simplistic term's. They may not fully understand everything I teach them, but not once do I decieve them or make something sound more believable. When it come's to religion and humanities notion of god, I teach them why some people have a need to believe this stuff.
Can't see the world with your eye's closed
You ever take a chance to read my evolution of religion thread? Not the best, but I think it's well thought out enough, even if it jumps around here and there.